Latvia President Edgars Rinkevics sits down with NBC Bay Area to discuss artificial intelligence and his California visit.

Latvia’s top military commander said a Russian drone that crashed on the Baltic nation’s territory was an Iranian-designed model as authorities called on NATO allies to bolster air defenses.

A drone recovered in Latvia on 7 September during another attack on Ukraine was a Russian Shahed-type drone equipped with explosives, representatives of the Latvian National Armed Forces have stated at a briefing.

A Russian long-range attack drone breached Latvian airspace before crashing on the territory of the NATO country, officials confirmed, in what is a new development on the fringes of the war in Ukraine.

Latvia’s president said NATO needs to have the ability to shoot down Russian drones that stray into member states’ territory as he called for increased air defenses on the alliance’s eastern flank.

A suspected Russian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) crashed in eastern Latvia on Sept. 7, the Latvian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Sept. 8. This would be the first confirmed case on Latvian soil.

An unidentified flying object flew into Latvian airspace from Belarus on Tuesday. Naturally, In sych cases, nerves are on edge these days. But fortunately, this time it was a misunderstanding. Or rather,